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Notes on the History of Trinity College, Cambridge
Notes on the History of Trinity College Cambridge Author:Walter William Rouse Ball General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Universities and colleges Education / Higher Study Aids / College Guides Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Boo... more »ks edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 16 CHAPTER II. -Ring's 1ball. After this rapid survey of the main features of the history of the university, and of the origin of colleges therein, I turn to the history of the medieval society -- King's Hall -- with which Trinity is directly connected. Before entering on the details of the history of King's Hall, it may be well to describe briefly how the site of the present Old Court of Trinity and its surroundings were occupied in the middle ages. The area bounded on the north by St. John's College, on the east by houses in Trinity Street, on the south by Trinity and Garret Hostel Lanes, and on the west by the river, is now occupied by courts and walks of Trinity, as indicated by the map on p. 17. In the year 1300 it presented a very different appearance. In the first place, the river then forked just above Garret Hostel Bridge, and a narrow branch (about fifteen to twenty feet wide), known as the King's Ditch, ran to the east of the present bed (through the ground covered at present by the New and Nevile's Courts), and joined the Cam again just above St. John's : this is described on the map as the 'Old Ditch.' The east bank of this ditch was used for wharfage, and to it ran Trinity Lane (which then continued to the water's edge, over what is now the New Court), and another parallel BLOCK PLAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE 17lane, known as King's Childer (or Childers) Lane, which, commencing in Trinity Street, passed through the rooms now used as the College Office, to the south of the su...« less